View full size(Times-Picayune/Ted Jackson)Anthony Hargrove: Defensive lineman who can line up at end or tackle, signed with the Saints as a free agent last offseason and played in all 16 regular-season games, starting 6 of them.NEW ORLEANS -- The New Orleans Saints
announced today that restricted free agent defensive lineman Anthony
Hargrove has signed the qualifying offer the club had tendered to him
and will return to New Orleans for the 2010 season.

Hargrove, a 6-3, 272-pound defensive lineman who can line up at end
or tackle, signed with the Saints as a free agent last offseason and
played in all 16 regular-season games, starting six of them. The
five-year veteran out of Georgia Tech made 63 tackles (29 solo) in his
inaugural season in New Orleans with five sacks, a forced fumble and
three fumble recoveries, one of which he returned for a touchdown.

The 26-year-old Hargrove also played in all three of the Saints'
postseason contests, making 15 tackles. He was named NFC Defensive
Player of the Week for his efforts in the Week Nine victory over
Carolina that saw him make four tackles, force a fumble and recover two
fumbles, scooping one of them up and running a yard into the end zone
for a touchdown.

Hargrove was also voted by his teammates as the club's winner of the
Ed Block Courage Award after coming back from a year-long suspension to
be a significant contributor to the Super Bowl XLIV champions. For his
career, he has played in 73 games - starting 25 of them - and made 255
tackles with 15Â½ sacks, forced two fumbles and recovered five.